MEMBERSHIP AND CODES

Debbie Flint

The Little Stranger

By:
Sarah Waters

Narrated by:
Simon Vance

Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
633

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
345

Story

4 out of 5 stars
347

In a dusty postwar summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

5 out of 5 stars

A subtle ghost story

Sadly...

Overall

3 out of 5 stars

Performance

3 out of 5 stars

Story

3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 17-01-18

Not up to sarah’s usual standard. A hard slog to listen to, and dick-van-dyk-esque accents occasionally, from narrator. Not v good posh ones either. Shame. Not a patch on Paying Guests which is outstanding.

The Summer of Impossible Things

By:
Rowan Coleman

Narrated by:
Imogen Church

Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
620

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
578

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
581

Thirty years ago something terrible happened to Luna's mother. Something she's prepared to reveal only after her death. In settling her mother's affairs, Luna finds more questions than answers until something impossible and magical happens.... Luna meets her mother as a young woman back in the summer of 1977. If she can truly travel back in time, she can change things. But in order to save her mother's life, will she have to sacrifice her own?

5 out of 5 stars

So lovely

Genius

Overall

5 out of 5 stars

Performance

5 out of 5 stars

Story

5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 19-07-17

One of my favourite films is frequency as well as Groundhog Day and sliding doors so alternate reality stories always intrigue me. This one is genius. One of the best I have read in a long time and certainly Rowan Coleman's best yet. It just has to be a film, surely! Well done Missus! X

14 of 15 people found this review helpful

The Buttonmaker's Daughter

By:
Merryn Allingham

Narrated by:
Genevieve Swallow

Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
10

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
10

Story

4 out of 5 stars
10

May 1914. Nestled in Sussex, the Summerhayes mansion seems the perfect country idyll. But a long-running feud between the Summers and their neighbour, Lady Summer's brother, threatens the calm. And with tensions in Europe deepening, it seems that Summerhayes' peaceful days are numbered. For Elizabeth Summer, the lazy quiet of her home has become stifling. A chance meeting with Aiden Kellaway, an architect's assistant, offers the promise of escape.

Another well crafted tale

Merryn has done it again. Love the period attention to detail and solid characters. Cant wait for next one x

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Fetch Nurse Connie

By:
Jean Fullerton

Narrated by:
Julie Maisey

Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
35

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
34

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
31

Connie Byrne, a nurse in London's East End working alongside Millie Sullivan from Call Nurse Millie, is planning her wedding to Charlie Ross, set to take place as soon as he returns from the war. But when she meets him off the train at London Bridge, she finds that his homecoming isn't going to go according to plan. Connie's busy professional life, and the larger-than-life patients in the district, offer a welcome distraction, but for how long?

Connie the nurse

Nostalgic

Fabulous!!! Another winner. Nurse Millie books interweave and it works really well! More please! X

The Memory Book

By:
Rowan Coleman

Narrated by:
Robert Blackwood,
Clare Corbett,
Anna Bentinck

Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
56

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
53

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
54

The name of your first-born. The face of your lover. Your age. Your address... What would happen if your memory of these began to fade? When Claire starts to write her Memory Book, she already knows that this scrapbook of mementoes will soon be all her daughters and husband have of her. But how can she hold onto the past when her future is slipping through her fingers...?

Moving

Excellent novel as usual by Ms Coleman. Tissues at the ready but uplifting a la Still Alice. Comforting to those in a similar position too, no doubt

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

An Echo in the Bone

Outlander, Book 7

By:
Diana Gabaldon

Narrated by:
Davina Porter

Length: 45 hrs and 59 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
637

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
492

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
493

Jamie Fraser knows from his time-traveling wife Claire that, no matter how unlikely it seems, America will win the Revolutionary War. But that truth offers little solace, since Jamie realizes he might find himself pointing a weapon directly at his own son - a young officer in the British army. And Jamie isn't the only one with a tormented soul - for Claire may know who wins the conflict, but she certainly doesn't know whether or not her beloved Jamie survives.

Wait for book 8 before buying this one

Loved it as ever

Overall

5 out of 5 stars

Performance

5 out of 5 stars

Story

5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 13-04-15

What can i say, the woman's a genius. Both of them are. Fab story, fab narration. Cant believe im up to date once i finish next book. Boo! Thank goodness fir Lord John Gray books.Nb am now watching Outlander in amazon too- fabulous and the hottest young Jamie Fraser a female reader could hope for. Yay all round! X

The State We're In

By:
Adele Parks

Narrated by:
Antonia Beamish

Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
178

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
163

Story

4 out of 5 stars
161

What are the odds that the stranger sitting next to you on a plane is destined to change your life? Especially when they appear to be your opposite in every way. She's a life-long optimist, he's a resolute cynic. In the time it takes to fly from London to Chicago, each finds something in the other that they didn't even realise they needed. When they get off the plane their true journey begins...

3 out of 5 stars

Grim

Ok

Overall

3 out of 5 stars

Performance

3 out of 5 stars

Story

3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 18-02-15

Loved big parts of it, specially from when they get on plane. Not my fave type of twists. Narrator ok but pretty poor in parts - would like to hear Adele's fab books done justice instead of very halting delivery, often with weird splitting up if sentences- annoying. Ould listen to more from adele herself tho . Lovely lady x

Sycamore Row

By:
John Grisham

Narrated by:
Michael Beck

Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,543

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,421

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,418

Fight them, Mr Brigance. To the bitter end. We must prevail. In the long-awaited successor to the novel that launched his phenomenal career, John Grisham brings us the powerful sequel to
A Time to Kill. As filled with twists as it is with legal mastery, Sycamore Row proves beyond doubt that John Grisham is in a league of his own. Jake Brigance has never met Seth Hubbard, or even heard of him, until the old man's suicide note names him attorney for his estate.

Grisham back at his best

gripping

totally brilliant, utterly gripping, loved the twists at the end. True Grisham - you won't be disappointed (unlike with The Racketeer!)I bought the prequel on the strength of this!

The Racketeer

By:
John Grisham

Narrated by:
J. D. Jackson

Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
1,071

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
746

Story

4 out of 5 stars
743

Number One bestseller John Grisham returns with his most suspenseful thriller yet. Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of the USA only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fawcett just became number five. His body was found in the small basement of a lakeside cabin he had built himself and frequently used on weekends.